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BIBLIOGRAPHY: 



Papers and records published with respect to the natural 

 history and physical features of the North of England. 



MAMMALIA, 1885. 



The present instalment includes a few notes for 1884 which were 

 accidentally overlooked when the bibliography for that year was 

 published. The numerous references to sporting matters, fox-hunt- 

 ing, etc., which appear in ; The Field,' 'Land and Water,' etc., do 

 not find a place in these papers. 



Various Writers. Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmoreland. 



[Eecords of Otters — Lutra vulgaris — and accounts of Otter-hunting ; Otters 

 seen in the Wyre — Field, August 8th, 1885, p. 215. Hunting records for 

 Cumberland, Lancashire, and Westmoreland, Field, July nth, p. 61; 

 August 15th, p. 267; August 22nd, p. 314; August 29th, p. 349; and 

 Land and Water, July 25th, p. 88; August 22nd, p. 178; September 5th, 

 p. 226; and October 3rd, 1885, p. 322]. 



Anon, [no signature]. Lancashire. 

 [Otters — Lutra vulgaris — catching Eels in the river Lune]. Nat. World, Nov. 

 1885, p. 211. 



Anon, [no signature]. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire. 



Exportation of Vermin to the Colonies. [Discusses the exportation of Lincoln- 

 shire Stoats and Weasels to New Zealand, and states that ' in the parish of 

 Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, the chuchwardens' book which commences in 1788 

 contains between that date and 1830 such entries as the following : — In 1788 

 "four foxes and a foulmart, 4s. 2d."; 1789, "four foulmarts, 8d.'' ; "paid 

 for a fox's head, is. ; for a bever ditto, 2d." For "bever" we should prob- 

 ably read "otter," since the parish is near the river Wharfe, and an otter's 

 head is entered further on. Payments for foxes and foulmarts occur annually 

 till 1798, when two foulmarts cost " 4d. each ; three foxes, 3s. ; one otter, is. — 

 total, 4s. 8d."] Field, April 4th, 1885, p. 454. 



Anon, [no signature]. Yorkshire. 

 Gisburne Park [giving the old particulars as to the herd of wild cattle and their 

 extinction in 1859]. Land and Water, January 17th, 1885, p. 64. 



Anon, [no signature]. Westmoreland. 

 Interesting discovery in Westmoreland [a bone-cave at Helsfell near Kendal : 

 list of species given]. Land and Water, October 31st, 1885, p. 413. 



Oliver V. Aplin. Notts. 

 Period of Activity of the Noctule [ Vesperugo noctula ; giving dimensions and 

 weight of two Nottinghamshire specimens]. . . . Z00L, September 1885, 

 p. 344. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. Yorkshire. 

 Diary of Natural History Observations for 1884, pp. 28 [includes various 

 observations on mammals about Bradford, and in other parts of the West 

 Riding]. 



John Cordeaux. Northumberland. 

 4 Cheviot's Mountains Lone ' [and their Mammalia ; the Badger {Meles taxus), 

 Otter {Lutra vulgaris), Polecat (Mustela putoria) and others referred to]. 

 Field, October 3rd, 1885, p. 499. 



Aug, 1886. 



